{"id":12835,"date":"2012-04-04T16:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/04\/iran-set-uae-friendly-for-april\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T16:10:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:10:27","slug":"iran-set-uae-friendly-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/04\/iran-set-uae-friendly-for-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran set UAE friendly for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"team_melli_nov_2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/team_melli_nov_2011.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national team will face the UAE in a friendly match in Dubai on April 17.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The match will be held outside the FIFA calendar, as the next official FIFA matchdays in June are already occupied by World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, none of the foreign based players, apart from the ones playing in the UAE, will be able to join the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, due to Asian Champions League commitments of Sepahan, Esteghlal and Persepolis, none of the three clubs&#8217; players will be availble.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli also are in negotiations to play Japan in a friendly match in the middle of May.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s demand would be that the game must take place at the location of their training camp, which will be held somewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian officials and their Japanese counterparts have reached a verbal agreement but the Japanese have not officially announced their readiness,&#8221; Omid Jamali director of the International Relations Committee of Iran\u2019s football federation, was quoted by &#8216;Tehran Times&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran wanted to play Japan at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran,\u201d Jalali added.<\/p>\n<p>Again, many players would be unavailable at that point of time due to club duties in foreign leagues and Asian Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>An offer to play the Nigerian national team, however, without any of their foreign based players, in Dubai in April was meanwhile rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; DUBAI, Iran&#8217;s national team will face the UAE in a friendly match in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3985,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}